Number of Australian men arrested in 2015 for playing a trumpet while driving: one (to date).
Number of hands needed to play the trumpet: two. Number of hands left over for driving: zero.
Number of Australian dollars the driver will have to pay for careless driving: 354.

Update: Number of minutes spent by me researching trumpet-playing last night: zero.
Number of readers who have already pointed out that it does not take two hands to play
the trumpet: two. Number it actually takes: zero. Chance that the man mentioned above
(who was reportedly swerving all over the road) was this talented: also zero.

... during a car chase, a trident was flung from one moving car through
the open window of another moving car and lodged in the skull of the driver,
and yet the chase continued......

That story was enhanced by the victim's claim that he didn't feel the
spear ("Justin just said, 'You've got an arrow sticking out of your head,
bro,'"), and by the defendant's position that, while he admitted throwing
the spear into the other car, he denied doing it with "reckless disregard
for the safety of others."

The infamous funnel-web spider used to kill people in Australia–
until scientists developed an antivenom. Now there's plenty of the
stuff, thanks to some citizen science. Alamy

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The wound around the bite site will be excruciating. You’ll salivate uncontrollably like Pavlov’s pups. Your lips will tingle, and your muscles will spasm as your nervous system glitches. The real trouble starts, though, when the venom starts attacking your heart. That organ too will start to spasm, spiking your blood pressure. Fail to reach a hospital in time to get the antivenom, and you’re dead.

You definitely don’t want to get bitten by Australia’s funnel-web spider, which roams Sydney and the country’s east1 coast at large. But those who do—and survive, thanks to that precious antivenom—will have the Australian Reptile Park to thank. Just north of Sydney, it runs a program that asks ordinary citizens to capture Australia’s most venomous spider and take it to one of a dozen drop-off points in the area. Arachnid in hand, technicians can milk its venom and ship the stuff off to a biotech lab, which uses it to manufacture life-saving antivenom.

Aussies slur their words and use only two-thirds of their mouth to speak because early settlers spent most of their days DRUNK, academic says

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The Australian language developed because early settlers were often drunk
Academic claims the constant slurring of words distorted the accent
The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity
The drunken speech has been passed down from generation to generation